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Thursday, February 16, 2006
The Dick who is President
The comedians have been having a field day with Dick Cheney's shooting of his lawyer last week Nightline podcasts from the US ABC.
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Child killer
The Good Old Days weren't always so good, as this Dragnet episode from 1950 gruesomely demonstrates. Heard on The Big Broadcast from WAMU in Washington DC.
The most passionate love poem in the English language
It's still a mystery why Geoffrey Chaucer, who was so fluent in French, should have written in rough and unfashionable English. Thank goodness he did, because Troilus and Criseyde, read here by Carolyne Larrington of Oxford University on In Our Time, is reckoned to be the most passionate love poem ever written...Hir armes smale, hir streyghte bak and softe,
Hir sydes longe, fleshly, smothe, and whyte
He gan to stroke, and good thrift bad ful ofte
Hir snowish throte, hir brestes rounde and lyte;
Thus in this hevene he gan him to delyte,
And ther-with-al a thousand tyme hir kiste;
That, what to done, for Ioye unnethe he wiste.
Drag in history
John Safran and Father Bob McGuire discuss the use of transvestitism in politics through the ages, prompted by the film Munich.
Romani online
The gypsy language Romani is Europe's second largest minority language (after Catalan). Now it's online, as reported on Go Digital this week.Monday, February 13, 2006
Hearty Drink
It's commonly assumed that a small amount of alcohol daily is beneficial for the heart. However, according to Dr Rod Jackson on The Health Report, it's probably only heavy drinking that confers significant protection, and that has other problems...
iPlod
Thomas Niccum has decided to fight the modern sendentary lifestyle by doing most of his work while walking on a treadmill (called iPlod). He was inspired by the Mayo Clinic's Dr. James Levine, who calls it NEAT (Non-Exercise Activity Thermogenesis). They talk to John Gorton on Future Tense.